Today (2022 0718 tu) the author published the advanced reading copy cover of Too Much of Life on insta.

Therefore I searched a little bit further and found 'the' biography. The English! discription is quite moving imho.

this book is a thesis of uu and dedicated to his two men
see
uncorrected advanced reading copy - not for sale


lccn.loc.gov/2008055639
searching bejamin frank moser gives 35 results
8 results in national dutch library kb

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Moser-Clarice-Lispector-une-biographie/370507
> BAnQ (Weitzmann M., Le devoir, 28 avr. 2012) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/3451443
> Nuit blanche, (133), hiver 2013–2014, pp. 44–45 : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/70956ac
> Éditions des femmes : https://www.desfemmes.fr/litterature/clarice-lispector-une-biographie/
> Bibliographie des œuvres de Clarice Lispector : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/035774ar

«Clarice Lispector es la escritora brasileña más estudiada de su siglo, y no solo en su país de origen. Pero el misterio es parte del universo clariceano y hay que partir de él para comprender la especificidad de su obra». ANNA CABALLÉ, El País «Una extraordinaria y minuciosa mezcla de puzle biográfico, de magistral crítica y análisis literario, así como de escritura sumamente seductora y clarificadora». MERCEDES MONMANY, ABC «Una biografía digna de su protagonista... Por fin una de las más enigmáticas escritoras del siglo XX retratada en todo su vibrante colorido». ORHAN PAMUK «Detallada, original y repleta de sensibilidad hacia lo que debe quedar oculto y lo que debe saberse. Moser ha escrito un libro fantástico sobre una heroína judía cuya familia vivió algunos de los peores episodios del siglo pasado en Europa. También hace un magnífico retrato del Brasil moderno donde se reconoce su genio y el trabajo de Lispector se considera un tesoro». COLM TÓIBÍN «Benjamin Moser ha recreado el contexto psicológico y social necesario para entender a esta gran escritora y ha insuflado vida a su naturaleza esencialmente trágica en toda su complejidad». EDMUND WHITE En esta biografía, que es ya un libro de referencia en todo el mundo, Benjamin Moser desentraña los mitos que rodean a una de las más extraordinarias figuras de la literatura contemporánea y nos muestra cómo Clarice Lispector transformó su lucha personal como mujer en una obra de resonancia universal.

I feel like everything I've ever read has been priming me for Clarice Lispector; not that she's my new favorite writer, but I'm able to read her books entirely without suspicion. She writes about emotion, not melodrama, writes about experience as though it were the first time ever felt. Reminds me of music. Attempts to elucidate her mystique show how transparent she really is, vulnerable even, vulnerability being such a rare and precious thing in writers. "Still alive because it was only 9 in the morning," from a short story. And something, I can't find the quote, about sorrow without anger, like looking for the seafloor from a boat and not finding it, from "Near to the Wild Heart." Love it, can't get enough. ( )

I enjoyed this overview of Clarice Lispector and learning some small facts about her life and personality helped immensely with being able to read her works. Why this World fell short of a four star for me because I thought that Moser dedicated too much page space to his own analysis of her works and imposed his own judgements on the facts of her life. He was present on every page, often overshadowing and imposing on Clarice. I would have liked to see more of the content from letters and diaries of friends discussing her as contemporaries and something from her own personal papers that are not part of her published bibliography. Instead, there were incredibly long passages quoted directly from her short stories and novels followed by long passages of Moser's analysis taking almost half of the page count. Although I know this sort of analysis is common in literary biography, I wanted to know about Clarice Lispector and not about what Benjamin Moser thinks of Clarice Lispector's works.

I thought he treated her metaphysical learning cursorily and substituted the background the reader needed on Spinosa and Cabbalism with long passages of analysis of Brazilian politics and political leaders that had only roundabout connection to Clarice (she met them a few times or her husband knew them). Her children, who were incredibly important to her and her understanding of herself (by her own admission many times), feature almost not at all (we are told that Pedro's illness affected her from a young age and the Paulo married - but beyond that nothing else of their lives). Maury appears for only a few pages. Her sisters and the female friends who made up her day-to-day life each have perhaps a page. It was incredibly disappointing. I wanted to know her and the people who surrounded her and influenced her, and instead I know something of the succession of Brazilian leaders in the 20th century and about how Moser reads her works (and even his analysis I thought was pompous and overblown - I started skipping it around the last third of the book). If you like Lispector and are an English reader, I do recommend persevering through this, but if you have not read her works, do not expect this book to inspire you to. Try first with her short stories. ( )